Type-writer.



W. J. GIEL.

TYPE WRITER.

\IE'LNATION TILED on u N12 Patented Aug. 25. 1914.

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I l EDEIEIU D E IU U gaunt] ilumc DUDE] \UUUE? WI'ILLEM JoHiANNEs GIRL, or THE HAGUE. Nm-HEnLAm.

TYPE-WRITER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

iatented Aug. 25,"114.

Application filed October 1912 Serial No. 724,860.

To (12% whom it may concern Be it known that I, VVILLEM JOHANNES (iIEL, retired colonel of the Royal Dutch Army, subject of the Kingdom of the Netherlamls,-residing at 100 Schuytsstraat, The Hague, Kingdom of the Netherlands, have invented certain new and useful improvements in 'lypellriters, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

In typewriters provided with type by means of which the impressions are made upon the paper and which are formed with a plate, a sector or a r0lle'r,suc-h type are arauged on the latter in horizontal rows one below the other and are brought by means of key-actuated levers to the. proper level for printing, that is to say, into the position required for making the impressions 1n thehne of writing. By means of such typewriters the letters, figures and other characters can be printed as a rule only in a horizontal line, one after another, the impression being made by depressing. a key, during the subsequent upward movement of which the paper is carried forward and moved into that position which it is necessary for it to occupy in order to receive the next impression, that is, the impression of the following letter, figure or other character. Again, most typewriters of thecharacter just referred to are turtl'ierl'nore fitted with a special key by means of which the paper is moved back in a horizontal direction, so that the forward increment of the paper is interrupted. This special key is commonly called the backspace keyQ Furthermore. in order to produce an impression the proper and normal position of which is above the line of writing, the paper has in typewriters of this kind to be adjusted in the case oi lau guages using roman letters or characters, only a few of which consist of two parts superimposed upon or adjacent to each other, the letters, g figures cl' other charactersv may without any special adjustn'lent of the paper he brought directly to the proper level apd imprinted one after the other, which re sults from the fact that separate keys can be arranged for these few peculiar charac-.

ters that have to be printed ahore or below the line of writing. If, however, several letters or figures or other characters are re.- (piired to be arranged in superposition with respect to one another, the paper has to be adjusted in a vertical direction after the making of each impression. Again, thevpaper, which after the printin or typing has already been fed automatica ly into the position required for the printing of the next supceeding character, must be pushed back just enough so that it will again occupy the position last occupied, the automatic advance movement of the paper being thus interrupted. In the case of many monosyllabic languages of the countries of the East (for example, the J'araneselan age), in which certain characters frequent y con sist of from two to four parts arranged vertically one above the other, the adjustment just referred to presents much greater difficulties, since the timeconsuming manipulations of positioning the paper both h0rizontally and vertically must be performed re- I peatedly.

The object of the present invention is to overcome and avoid the aforementioned drawbacks met with in the use of type writers in which the type letters, figureso'r other signs or characters by means of which the impressions are made and ,whiehare arranged in rows, one below" the other on a plate. a sector or a-wheel, and to provide a typewriter by meansof which the letters, figures or other signs and characters can be printed in superposition with respect to one another and superposed in any required number. in this waysueh a language as the Javanese language can be typewritten without special eiiort orloss of time. This object is attained by so arranging the typecarrying plate, roller, sector or its equivalent (commonly called, I believe, the typeshuttie) and its actuating parts, that by simply touching one of the keys by means of which the impression of a type character is obtained. the said impression or imprint is properly positioned either on or above or below the/line ofnriting Then by depressing one of the keys by means of which the rows of type characters are adjusted or poitioned, the paper is simultaneously and automatically pushed back such a distance or inlerral that the paper is again brought into the position in which it was required to be for the production of the impression last made. ()wiogto the peculiar arrangement of this typeshiztt c, the extra adjustment of the paper in a vertical direction is avoided;

for, by connecting the sU-Calid shifi-keys. used for making the adgustxnent of the rows,

with the so-called back-space key, there is avoided an extra actuation of the latter key One practical embodiment-of this inven-- tion is exempIified in "the accompanying drawing, which is intended especially to show a typewriter fitted with a type-shuttle arranged for writing roman characters but altered in such. a manner that it can be used as well for printing impressions of Javanese letters, figures and other signs and characters.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of this invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle,

Fi ure 1 shows in elevation a type-shuttle an its actuatin r ,key as these parts are arranged in an or inary typewriter for use in printing roman letters and characters; Fig. 2 shows in elevation a type-shuttle made in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 3 is a detail showin in plan the interconnection between the hack-space kc and the other keys; Fig. 3" is a side view 0 the [parts shown in Fig. 3, the View being taken-looking to the right in Fig. 3 andt e back-space key 12'being omitted; andFig. 4 is a detail showing the back-space key in side view.

In Fig, 1, the type 2 are arranged on "the type-shuttle 1 in three rows 5, 6, 7, of which the row 5 is in position for printing without displacing the type-shuttle vertically. Iii order that impressionsmay be made of the characters arranged in rows 6 and the type-shuttle is displaced vertically upward by means of keys one of which is shown at 3, 4, P ig. 1. This is the arrangement which has customarily been used heretofore in this class of typewriters. A ccordin to the present invention the type-shuttle s iown in Fig. 1 is replaced by the type-shuttle illustrated in Fig. 2, the t pe face of which may be regarded as divited into three equal horizontal parts or spaces 8, 9, 10. However, in these spaces the characters are not necessarily on the same horizontal lines or in the same horizontal row. For example, in the space 10 the characters are distributed in four horizontal rows,'whi ch arrangement is adopted in this particular case by reason of the far-t that in the Javanese language the greatest number of parts of which a single character is composed is four. When the characters the position oi. which is to be in the line of writing are arranged in the second line or level, the characters which are to print above the line of writing are preferably arranged in the first level and those which are to print below the line of writing are arranged in the third and fourth levels. In grouping the characters it is preferable to place in the first space 8 asmanyas practicable of those characters which are to print directly in the line of writing and to place in thesecond and third spaces 9, 10, those characters which are to print below the line of writing of above it. Since when writing roman characters there will also al ways he provided one of the shift-keys for producing the impressions of the characters occurriiigfin the second and third spaces, the

typing these special characters will'not be accompanied by any peculiar trouble, difficulty or loss of time in connection with a typewriter embodying the present inventlon; the principal omt'is that the moving back of the paper, t e operation of the backspace key and the ad ustment of the required row can be produced by a single movement. For this purpose there is rovided in addition. to the back-space 'ey, with which most typewriters of this class are now fitted, a set of levers less in numbenthan the number of spaces into which the ty e-shuttle is divided,

' n Fig. 3 there is shown an'larrangement in which there are two levers 13, 14 arranged to coast with the ordinary backspace key 12. Below these levers 13, 1 1 there is arranged a lever 16 that actuates the rod which displaces the type-shuttle. the levers 1.3 and 14 being provided'with contact pieces at such a level that by doprcssing the key of the lever 13 and by forcing downlthc lever 1 the third space of the type-shuttle is brought into printing position? Moreover, the back-space key 12 is formed at one side with a lug 17 and the le' re:- 13 is provided on its face adjacent to the back-space key with a pawl or detent 18 arranged to engage the lug 17. The frame "of the machine carries a tripping-screw 19 one endof which is projected into the path of the detent 18 so that, upon the depressing of the lever 13 thedetent 18 is swung on its pivot and is thereby disengaged from tlu lug 17. The leve'r-"i t is provided with a laterally-extending tongue 20 which projccts over the-lever 1.3, so that when the lever 14!: is depressed, the lever 13 is also depressed andthe back-space key 12 is actu ated. However, it is obvious that when the lever 13 is depressed, it will move independ! ently of the lever 14. From this arrangement of parts it results that, wheneither of the levers 13 or 14 is actuated, the back-space key will also be actuated and the paper will be moved back to the position which'it occupied at'the time that the last impression was made; and the trip-screw 19 is so ad-.

justed that the lug 1"? is-not disengaged from the detent it until the back-s ace key has come into action find the apex ms been pushed back over the reqnirm distance.

As hereinbe fore described, the typewriter has been arranged for printing characters one above the other in vertical columns; however, when the characters are to be printed in oblique columns, the type must not he placed vertically as hereinbefore t le- S('lll)0(l and shown in the dn'twings but the type should be placed in inclined lines or columns. I

In vase ol a typewriter embodying the present invention. the surface must evidontly he of a size sufiicient to enable the printing of the type characters which oc our in the dilferent levels or horizontal lines.

in the case of typewriters in which the impressions are made by means of :i, roller lllL'll mrries the type (that is, typewheel) being brought forcibly against the paper, this roller is oonmii'ed out all over its periphery at each row of t pe lzhm'nvto e so as to correspond to the curvature of fhe pnperirolleror platen. the type-(intruders with the back-spare la from 'Wllliil it re llli (lint in the wire oi =iyp wvritm-s harm-9, no lnu-lcspnre key the em'xi-r imentof the: same therein may be entirely dispensed w th In the case of typewriters provided will] shift-keys which serve -nly for ndjustmg the rows, these shift-keys may herringd up with the hawk spare key so at no s gn in! shiftdreys 13. M will 'i: that e ent he ipsired. The :l l untnges resulting from the the =w-mit inventi-ni, pzu'lloulnrly as w ouorny ol time miv-erne-ll, Wil be understood from the fnllo'il'ingcm [Mm-m old style typewriters; a i

l l l Inge nruns writers embodying the present invention. Let it be suppo" that tile two letters, it and b to be printed in superposition, In order to effect tlii. res all means of the h} style tv is required". {1) to depress: the a in adjust the mpel" in. a vertical the beekspere he key; and (5} to using a. typewriter invention all that it, is new; l eil'eot this $313+: result is: ("3} to dep :1" key; (2) to :1 mm the shift-hey eonneeted with hwh met; and {3} to iiipress the l! hey llilll, in the of n, t pewritl-iemhmlyi g the present invention, not a single movement more has to he performed than in the e of operating: an old style typewriter to print two letter.) or lilzii'zu-tel'z-i divs,

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